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house features include 8
narrow-arched doorways,
balconies and overhanging Theológos
upper storeys, with traces ⌂ 50 km (31 miles) S of
of the indigo, magenta and
ochre plaster pigment that Liménas @
was once commonly used Well inland, secure from
across the Balkans. attack, Theológos was the
Ottoman-era capital of Thásos.
A traditional village, develop-
6 ment here is restricted, and
tiered houses still have their
Kástro typically large chimneys and
Κάστρο slate roofs. Generous gardens
and courtyards give the village
⌂ 45 km (28 miles) SW of a green and open aspect. A
Liménas ruined tower and low walls
At the centre of the island of on the hillside opposite are
Thásos, 500 m (1,640 ft) up evidence of Theológos’s
View across the water in the mountains, the village original 16th-century foun-
to Skála Potamiás, of Kástro was extremely dation by Greek refugees.
fringed by mountains secure from pirate attacks.
Founded in 1403 by Byzantine
Emperor Manuel II Paleologos,
Athos in northern Greece, the the village became a strong-
monastery’s most trea sured hold of the Genoese, who EAT
relic is a Holy Nail from the fortified the local hill, where
Cross. Nuns have occupied the cemetery is now located. Archodissa
the grounds since 1974. Kástro was slowly abandoned An enjoyable all-round
after 1850, when the estab- taverna, with
lishment of a German mining attractively priced fish
5 concession created jobs at dishes and wine, as well
Limenária, on the coast below.
Megálo Kazavíti Kástro has now been as great views.
reinhabited on a seasonal ⌂ Hillside beyond
⌂ 22 km (14 miles) SW eastern cove, Alykí
of Liménas @ basis by sheep farmers. The § 25930 31552
kafenío occupies the ground
Greenery-shrouded Megálo floor of the former school, ¡¡¡
Kazavíti (officially Ano Prínos) beside the church. Many
surrounds a central square, house restorations since the Iatrou
which is a rarity on Thásos. 1990s have finally brought At this delightful
There is no better place to mains power to the village. taverna, the aroma of
find examples of traditional goat and suckling pig
domestic Thasian architecture, being roasted wafts in
with its characteristic mainland 7 the fresh mountain air.
Macedonian influence: original ⌂ Theológos village,
Sotíras Thásos
⌂ 23 km (14 miles) SW § 25930 31000
of Liménas @ ¡¡¡
Facing the sunset, Sotíras has
the most alluring site of all the Pigi
inland villages – a fact not lost Located near a spring,
on the many foreigners who this decades-old eatery
have made their homes here. is particularly
Under huge plane trees atmospheric at night.
watered by a fountain, the ⌂ Southwest corner,
tables of a small taverna fill main square, Liménas
the relaxed, balcony-like § 25930 22941
square. The ruin above the ¡¡¡
Sheep on the wall of a church was a lodge for miners,
house in the mountain whose exploratory shafts still
village of Kástro yawn on the ridge opposite.
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